John gibbons



A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN GIBRONs, or wEs TRoY, NEW YoRK, Ass'ieNoR TO THE-UNION HARDWARE MANUFACTURING ooMPANY, OF sAME PLACE.

HALTER-STRAP FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,983, dated May 6, 1884. l

Application filed November 13, 1883. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that LJQHN ,GIBBONS, of the village of West Troy, county of Albany, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Halter-Strap Fastenings, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to that class of articles used to connectthe ends of halter-straps with halter leads or loops; and my invention consists, as will hereinafter be more fully detailed, and expressed in the claim, of two paralleh separated clamping-bars connected by two intermediately-placed ring-form straps, which are all made in one casting of malleable metal, and adapted to receive the rope with the end of strap encircling the former, and with the bars then bent in toward one another, to grasp and hold the rope and the strap ends thus intermediately held.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,there are shown three figures illustrating 'my invention, with the.

same designation of parts by letter, reference used in all of them, of which Figure 1 illustrates in perspective a-halter with my invention shown as connecting the halter-strap with the halter lead or loop. Fig. 2 illustrates a perspective of the device separated from the halter and strap, and Fig. 3 shows a modification of Fig. 2.

The several parts of which the device is made, and of the halter in connection with which it is used, are designated by letter-reference, and their function explained as follows:

The letter L indicates the halter lead or loop; L its tether end; and H, the halterstrap, and H H the attached ends of the latter.

The letters B and B indicate two parallel bars, connected by the ring-straps R and R and O a' lip made on the outer edge of the bar B. i

The device thus made is attached as follows: The ends of the halter-strap are each at opposite sides of the halter-loop passed over and around the rope L, with each end lapping past where encircling the rope, and then inserted, each in one of the attaching devices, between the bars B B thereof, and so as to be within the encircling inclosing-grasp of the strap-rings R R in which condition the bars B and B of each separate device are forced toward each other, and so as to be in the position shown at Fig. 1. This attachment firmly secures the strap and rope. It is easily made, and-is easily applied, and it gives to the connected parts a good finish.

At Fig. 2 I have shown a lip as applied to the edge of the bar B, which merely serves to cover the lapping end of the strap, and which may be omitted, if desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination, with the strap and rope portion of a halter, of the coupling device, consisting of the parallel side bars, BB connected by ring-like straps or portions R R,

all applied to operate substantially as set forth.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 23d day of October, 1883, in the presence oftwo witnesses'. 7

JOHN GIBBONS. 

